Health Minister targets wayward EC nursing professionals

01 Feb 2016 | Admin Author

Health Minister, Aaron Motsoaledi says plans are afoot to suspend the CEO of the Holy Cross Hospital in the Eastern Cape and its nursing manager.

He told reporters in Pretoria that the findings and recommendations of a probe had been sparked by a report by the Eastern Cape Health Coalition.
The report was titled "Death and Dying - an Investigation into the collapse of a healthcare system".

Motsoaledi said he intended reporting the two staffers to the SA Nursing Council, as they were both nurses by profession.

Motsoaledi's investigators found gross mismanagement at the hospital, which was investigated along with other hospitals in the OR Tambo district, after the release of the coalition's report.

The district is one of the 11 pilot districts for the National Health Insurance initiative.